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venturebeat.com

Offlane, a newsstand app for the iPad, launched today. The app syncs online news content to your iPad so it can be read offline. The company took the stage Thursday at the Launch Conference to present its product. The panel of judges, which include Tim Lee from Sequoia Capital and David...

techcrunch.com

The not-for-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation has launched an app store for the $25 mini computer — called the Pi Store – to “make it easier for developers of all ages to share their games, applications, tools and tutorials with the rest of the community”. The Pi mini computer was designed with...

www.bgr.com

Samsung’s iCloud competitor, dubbed S-Cloud, may be unveiled at next month’s Galaxy S III announcement in London on May 3rd, a South Korean newspaper reported on Friday. The service is similar to Apple’s offering but without any limitations on the type of content users can upload. The service is also...

adage.com

LONDON (AdAge.com) -- Compared to their American counterparts, European newspapers are moving slightly more quickly to prove, or at least put to the test, consumers' willingness to pay for news that's delivered digitally....

tech.fortune.cnn.com

Apple sells 5 million iPhone 5 units during week one; why it's hip to be Square. Fortune launches new daily app for the iPad [FORTUNE] Beginning with the current issue, iPad users can experience Fortune soup-to-nuts in a dashboard on their tablets. The magazine content is interspersed with daily news and analysis...

thenextweb.com

Dailymotion‘s partners can now sell their content via OpenVoD, the video platform announced today. The paid service is powered by content monetization startup Cleeng, and lets online viewers buy TV episodes and live shows in a few clicks. According to Dailymotion, it first launched OpenVoD in France at the end of...

techcrunch.com

As everyone and their dog moves to online production, podcasters have long hunted for a way to monetize their goods. Apps are available that let you sell podcasts for a set price, but what about aggregation over multiple platforms and using varying monetization models? More important, podcasters don’t want to...

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www.theverge.com

We've heard that Samsung has long been preparing its own cloud service, dubbed S-Cloud, and now a report from Maeli Business claims that all will be unveiled next month. Citing a leaked "Samsung Electronics SW Consolidation Plan," the site claims Samsung will introduce the S-Cloud service at its press...

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YouTube rival Dailymotion is making its first foray in to subscription video on-demand (SVOD) with a €4.49-per-month bundle aimed at children, as it aims to show circling investors it can be more sustainable. Dailymotion’s France EVP Martin Rogard tells Les Echos the package, Dailymotion Kids Plus, will host a library...

paidcontent.org

Google has closed down One Pass, the paid content platform that it rolled out in February 2011 and revamped in February 2012. On the Google Blog, the company writes: One Pass, our payment platform for online news publishers, has been shut down. We are working with existing partners to make...

www.macrumors.com

The Next Web points to a recent thread in the Dropbox support forums revealing that a number of developers have been seeing their iOS apps with Dropbox integration being rejected by Apple. The apps have been rejected because users without the Dropbox iOS app installed on their devices who attempted...

arstechnica.com

We've definitely entered an era of experiment when it comes to online content, as a number of publications with a tradition in the print world are testing out approaches like building paywalls, mixing free and paid content, and limiting the amount of content that's indexed by search engines. But Japan's...

www.engadget.com

The British Film Institute plans to digitize and provide easier access to 10,000 British flicks as part of a new £500 million (approximately $800 million) "Film Forever" initiative. In addition to driving growth in the UK industry by investing in education, filmmaking and the like, the institute wants to...

techcrunch.com

Pearl.com, the Q&A site formerly known as JustAnswer, has raised $25.7 million in a Series B funding round. The San Francisco-based company plans to use the money to add to expand its product globally, build out its mobile presence, and grow its current staff of 300-some employees, half of...

www.fastcompany.com

(Hint: It's when you're "StumblingUpon" things.) Every day, Internet users are hit with a barrage of advertisements, from banners to promoted tweets to pre-roll YouTube ads. Very rarely do those users think of annoying ads as opportunities to learn about a brand's story. But StumbleUpon's Teal Newland, the discovery aggregator's first-ever Vice...